Anyway, please stay safe and don’t be afraid to defend yourself.

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    To be fair, the military bases being buzzed drones thing has been going on for months now, long preceding the assassination of Brian Thompson. Like honestly maybe six months or more, I casually peruse the conspiracy subs, because occasionally they get something half-right. (Like the first I heard of COVID was freakouts about what was happening in China) But yeah, the dozens of drones buzzing military bases has been going on since long before Brian Thompson went down.

    It’s more that there’s an excuse to focus on it now to draw attention away from the fucked healthcare system. It troubles me a little bit that people can’t piece together that the media conveniently ignores all kinds of things until they need something else to focus on.


    Finally, you’d have more luck with a laptop and cyberwarfare.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–U.S._RQ-170_incident

    The Iranian government announced that the UAV was brought down by its cyberwarfare unit which commandeered the aircraft and safely landed it, after initial reports from Western news sources disputedly claimed that it had been “shot down”. The United States government initially denied the claims but later President Obama acknowledged that the downed aircraft was a US drone. Iran filed a complaint to the UN over the airspace violation. Obama asked Iran to return the drone. Iran is said to have produced drones based on the captured RQ-170 including the Shahed 171 Simorgh and Shahed Saegheh.

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    Goodness me, what hate does to people. She was born in 1987 but looks like could well be in her 50’s.

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      The filter to over-smooth everything and the ridiculously aging roller set hairstyle are making her look like a well maintained 60 year old.

      Put the same person in different clothes and a more relaxed hairstyle and she would look completely different. I bet she was elected young and tried to look more mature.

      It doesn’t look like anyone cooks in that kitchen either.

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    It’s a shame that politics have gotten us old women with sniper rifles in the most ugh way possible. Come on we could have grandma shooting ceos, but instead it’s a upper middle class woman vice signaling her love of violent solutions ro problems that need thinking

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    Aliens are not attacking.

    The drones have hurt no one.

    They are merely paying more attention now.

    Perhaps if society kills more CEOs, they will finally consider us sapient and establish contact.

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    I’m not a gun person, but it seems to me like anyone who claims they can shoot down a drone with a rifle is also revealing themselves to not be a gun person.

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      Why is that? People have hit more challenging targets. If the drone is stationary then it’s a no brainer easy target.

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      I just watched a YouTube video of ukraine drone operators and they had a guy in the middle of a field shoot down 3 fpv drones. They got him eventually but it is possible…

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          OP probably mentioned suicide because that accounts for almost half of guns deaths. That’s where your statistic comes from. Guns don’t just hop out the safe and run around killing people.

          And BTW, when you hear about someone shooting themself “cleaning their gun”, no, that was likely a suicide attempt. I’m not all that bright and I can figure out how to clear any gun you hand me.

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            When I was a kid, a neighbor was shot in his garage. There were definitely two stories that went around the neighborhood. One said suicide and the other said “cleaning his gun.” One of those was repeated when kids were around. The other when they thought no one was listening.

            Years back, I read was a very odd story about the Korean belief that falling asleep in a closed room with a running fan would result in death. This also seems to be a cover story for suicide.

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death

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    Fucking moron. You’ll never hit a drone with that! The ruskies have been trying that for the last couple years with virtually zero success.

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      $100 says she barely takes that thing past 100 yards…good luck hitting a drone 400+ yards from you moving at 60mph.

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      I don’t know anything about shooting or why a scoped gun is a bad thing…I know she won’t shoot down a single drone with that thing though.

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        A scope limits your field of view. It makes it easier to hit far away things moving relatively slowly/predictably.

        It would be the opposite of helpful against a fast/close small target. There’s a reason duck hunters use shotguns.